The morality of the Multi-Racial society

The words ‘nation,’ ‘ethnic group’ and ‘race’ are all closely related depending on the extent to which you identify them with a descent group.  Edmund Burke (1729-1797), the founder of conservatism, would have agreed for he said that the nation-state was a partnership between the living, the dead, and the yet unborn. The question before us then is: is it wise, right or moral to put the various descent-groups or nations of men together into one state or lock-in society.  There are good reasons based on the nature of man and his psychology, as well as the nature of politics and morals, to conclude that multi-racial societies have little to commend themselves to any of us in terms of them being either morally justifiable or practically workable and beneficial. There are a number of inter-related moral and prudential principles which point to this and we will look at them one by one. 

ARE NATIONS ENDED?

Whilst the Holy Bible in the Old and New Testaments is primarily a history of man; of his fall into sin and of God’s plan from eternity to deliver him from sin, and misery, by so great a redemption as the death of His own dear Son; the Bible also contains a political and social theory laid down by God - almost incidentally, as it were - by which we should seek to be governed.   This has been long recognised as so, even from the earliest days of New Testament Christianity, where Apostolic and Church Fathers set out, in their writings, their views of how the believing community should relate to the society in which they found themselves; and how the society in which they lived should relate to God’s ways for them - for God had a purpose, both for the community of faith and for the earthly city.  Augustine’s De Civitas Dei (The City of God) is perhaps the greatest early treatise on this theme of how God deals with the Church (the folk who have faith) and the world (those who do not).  But the New Testament itself also did the same.  The apostle Paul relates, for example, in his Letter to the Romans that the civic ’…powers that be…are ordained by God…’; that they have their duties from God - to be a terror to evil works; and that they are God’s ministers to execute wrath on evildoers, even to wielding the sword, the instrument of death, upon them (Romans 13: 1-10).